Longtime MAKE pal Raphaël Assénat wanted to recycle his stash of anti-static bags for component shipping, and built an improvised heat-sealer to do it. It's just a step-down transformer, some...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday November 21st, 2011 1:00 PM
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This is a well-documented solution for storing unlimited caller ID phone numbers. The site contains schematics and the software needed to decode and store the data. Some time ago, I...
Posted by Marc de Vinck | Monday March 3rd, 2008 5:44 PM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Electronics | 5 Comments
Raph writes - This is a project to interface sensors to an USB port for collecting weather related data such as temperature. The firmware supports many different sensors and interfaces....
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Tuesday June 12th, 2007 2:00 PM
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Raphael writes in - Someone gave me a Kenwood infra-red keyboard, designed for some Kenwood audio equipment. In order to make somthing useful with it, I built a receiver which...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Wednesday April 18th, 2007 7:00 AM
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Raphael writes - Being able to play NES and SNES games on the Wii’s Virtual Console is great (Thanks Nintendo!), but it’s much more fun to do it with the...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Friday March 2nd, 2007 4:37 AM
Categories: Electronics, Fun & Games | 1 Comment
Raphael sent in this rad Atari style joystick/controller to USB adapter - “When playing games from the 8bit computer era, I believe that gameplay is better using a real joystick...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Monday December 4th, 2006 11:23 AM
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Raph writes – “I have used the NES/SNES controller on parallel port mod for years, but since parallel ports have become quite uncommon, I decided to design my own SNES/NES...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Thursday July 6th, 2006 1:07 PM
Categories: Electronics, Fun & Games | 1 Comment
Raphael writes – “I thought it was sad not to use my SNES mouse anymore so I built an adapter to use it with with a Linux PC. The adapter...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Tuesday April 11th, 2006 4:50 PM
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Raph writes "Since the first time I saw a projection clock, I knew one day I would build my own by converting a watch with an LCD display. Last week,...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Wednesday February 1st, 2006 10:45 AM
Categories: Electronics | 6 Comments
Raphael writes "In order to practise at the arcade version of Super Mario Bros, I modified a NES to be able to run arcade ROMs. The result: A dedicated Super...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Wednesday January 18th, 2006 9:00 AM
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Raph writes "While reading the make magazine blog, I visited a webpage explaining how someone built a fume extractor: Ultra cheap fume extractor. I immediately decided to build one too....
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Tuesday January 3rd, 2006 2:01 PM
Categories: Electronics | 3 Comments
Procure IR modules from an old VCR, Raphael writes "Some time ago, I came across the Lirc (Linux Infrared Remote Control) website and decided to build a serial port IR...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Sunday January 1st, 2006 2:52 PM
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